New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
Protests and a New Zealand leader's absence overshadow a day marking the founding treaty with Māori
It’s often a day marked by spirited politics and at times boisterous protest. But Thursday’s anniversary of New Zealand’s ...
Māori academic says Te Tiriti o Waitangi relevant for Pasifika people
A Māori academic says that although New Zealand's founding document is a partnership between Māori and the Crown, it is ...
Waitangi Day: Thousands gather in NZ as Māori rights in focus
Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day.
Tauranga’s Māori Ward Byelection – Who’s Running?
With all eyes on Waitangi this week as the nation marks the national day, in Tauranga, another important decision needs to be made regarding who will become the city's next Māori ward councillor.
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A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped ...
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Waitangi Day 2025: Why Māori have low home ownership rates in New Zealand - and how that can change
The people she spoke to included families trying to get into their first home, Māori who have owned homes through generations, people who have built on Māori land and iwi who are trying to move ...
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'Part of history': Māori wardens' vital role in Waitangi events
There were protesters and you just knew that Waitangi was a time where people came to air their grievances.” It was 2012 and Smith had only been a Māori warden for five years. She was a ...